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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Should we allow ACK-only packets to be declared lost? (#3451)

ianswett <notifications@github.com> Fri, 21 February 2020 14:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Should we allow ACK-only packets to be declared lost? (#3451)
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@igorlord The reason it's a SHOULD is both because it's not designed to be required for QUIC to function correctly and because of the case when no ACK frame is sent prior to a connection close.

The only advantages I can think of would arise in extremely simple implementations, such as those which only track 1 ack range.  In that case, a receiver which received an ACK-only packet and then an ack-eliciting packet with a gap between the two would want to only acknowledge the ack-eliciting packet.  

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